... Asanteman Council to prescribe standard funeral

Otumfuo Osei Tutu 11, the Asantehene, has tasked the Asanteman Council to work out standardized funeral performance in Ashanti.

Giving the directive at the first meeting of the Asanteman Council in Kumasi on Monday, Otumfuo Osei Tutu said the performance of very expensive funerals that had become the order of the day was a source of great concern to him.

He said families spent huge sums of money on funerals to the neglect of the education of their children and said this state of affairs should not be allowed to continue.

The Asantehene, therefore, warned that anybody who would flout the law when it came into operation would be severely dealt with. Another area of concern to him, Otumfuo Osei Tutu said, was the judicious use of time and that the Asanteman Council would from now sit within specified periods of time.

‘’The council does not need to spend a whole day deliberating on many issues without achieving any results. It will be prudent to tackle one or two issues within a specified period and achieve results.’’

He expressed disappointment at the refusal of some chiefs on the various committees to attend meetings had resulted in their not performing to expectation.

“I have therefore tasked the Mamponghene, Daasebre Osei Bonsu, to reconstitute the committees.’’ GNA